Aeronca C-3
N16529 is an Aeronca C-3, a fixed-wing airplane with one motor with a piston engine, built in 1959. It has 2 seats. It is registered to Port Townsend Aero Museum, a corporation in Port Townsend, Washington. The registration is valid: it was issued on February 28, 2002 and expires on August 31, 2029. It holds a standard airworthiness certificate, dated August 25, 1959.
Aircraft
- Maker
- Aeronca
- Model
- C-3 · all C-3s and related versions
- Serial number
- A-673
- Type
- Fixed-wing, single engine
- Power
- Piston (reciprocating), 1 motor · Aeronca E113 SERIES · 45 hp
- Seats
- 2
- Year built
- 1959
- Cruising speed
- 63 mph
- Transponder code
- A10701 (octal 50203401)
Registration
- Status
- Valid registration
- Certificate issued
- February 28, 2002
- Expires
- August 31, 2029
- Last FAA action
- August 25, 2023
- Airworthiness
- Standard · August 25, 1959
- FAA region
- Northwest Mountain
- FAA record id
- 00082160
Owner as the FAA publishes it
- Name
- Port Townsend Aero Museum
- Type
- Corporation
- Address
- 105 Airport Rd
Port Townsend, WA 98368-9716
Owners can ask the FAA to withhold their name and address from public files. When they do, those fields are blank here as well. How that works.
Documents on file 0
No bills of sale, loans or other documents are indexed against this tail number.
Records check free · 0 to understand · 5 clear
The public federal record on N16529, read the way a buyer, lender or insurer reads it: FAA registration, prior tail numbers keyed on the serial number, reuse of the tail number, recent registry filings, and the NTSB accident record under this and every earlier registration.
Valid registration to Port Townsend Aero Museum, a corporation, certificate issued February 28, 2002, expires August 31, 2029. No fractional interest recorded. [1]
Standard certificate, dated August 25, 1959, consistent with the 1959 manufacture year. [1]
No earlier tail number is recorded against serial A-673 for this model in the deregistered file. [2]
No other airframe has carried N16529 according to the deregistered file. [2]
No bills of sale, loans or releases have reached the registry in recent weeks. The index covers only recent filings; older liens are in the records file. [3]
No NTSB investigation records located under N16529. CLEAR means the query ran and returned nothing, not that nothing ever happened. [4]
These live in the FAA aircraft records file (every document ever filed against the aircraft) and, for larger aircraft, the International Registry. Part of the full report.
AD compliance against the logbooks and flight-activity reconciliation are researched layers of the full report.
- FAA Releasable Aircraft Database, master file, file of October 2, 2026. registry.faa.gov/
- FAA deregistered aircraft file (part of the same download), file of October 2, 2026. registry.faa.gov/
- FAA document index: registry documents received in recent weeks, file of October 2, 2026. registry.faa.gov/
- NTSB aviation accident database (CAROL), records through August 27, 2026. data.ntsb.gov/carol-main-public/basic-search
This automated check reads the public federal record. Nothing here is a legal opinion, an appraisal or a statement about the aircraft's condition; a CLEAR line is a statement about the searched record, not the aircraft.
Source: FAA Civil Aviation Registry, Releasable Aircraft Database, October 2, 2026. See this record on the FAA site · This record as data